Amnesty Official Says Women Targeted in War
From Times Wire Reports
Women are raped and sexually tortured during war because they are viewed as “the reproductive machinery of the enemy” and the embodiment of a community’s honor, the head of Amnesty International said.
They are harmed in dozens of conflicts in such countries as Iraq, Afghanistan, Nepal, Colombia and Sudan, Irene Khan, secretary-general of the world’s largest human rights group, said in London.
“It becomes a military strategy: If you attack women you attack the morale of the enemy,” she said.
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